The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes. Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model, New ed, Paperback

Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of 'Post-Colonial Englishes' is the Dynamic Model. In this Element, I outline how Construction Grammar, the most prominent cognitive syntactic theory, can provide a cognitive foundation for the assumptions made by the Dynamic Model.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Thomas Hoffmann
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 75
• Collection: Elements in World Englishes
• Publication date: 2021
• Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 8
• Cover type: Paperback / softback